Bill Pulver, the father of 18-year-old Madeleine who was at the centre of a tense police operation in Sydney overnight, says his family is eager for their lives to return to normal. The teenager was freed after 10 hours with a device attached to her neck which turned out to be a fake bomb. The Pulvers, ...

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An alleyway brawl that left a Melbourne schoolboy dead, has raised questions about whos responsible for keeping international students safe in Australia. Year 12 student Jeremy Hu, was repeatedly kicked and stomped on, and he later died of his injuries. None of his friends called an ambulance ...

Three years ago Marcus Rappel murdered 28 year old Tara Costigan with an axe. The murder continues to confront our definition of domestic violence because despite a pattern of verbal aggressions, Rappel had never previously physically abused Costigan- the mother of his child. Canberra ...